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How much death and suffering does this guy have on his conscience?

I’m so curious how someone goes from being a professor to a science denier? I simply can’t imagine that journey.

Also interesting that there can be a giant asshole running a federal agency into the ground and I've never heard of him until now. Gives some scale to the problem. I also wonder what else is going on in government that falls below the widely reportable threshold.

It's like saying that one of the seagulls at the beach is particularly noisy.

Results are fuzzy. He has a nice Malibu compound to go to after this lived experience

The suffering is the point.

I can definitely imagine it. It becomes so much easier to not worry about it when you have a comfortable pillow made out of lots and lots of money to rest your head on.

Death and suffering are “natural.”

These people are all delusional ideologues. If reality does not match the ideology, reality must be wrong.

How much death and suffering does this guy have on his conscience?

His what now?

I imagine at some point, after earnestly trying to help the American people with real science, these people get tired of working thankless jobs where they're up against monstrous bureaucracy and just want to do something that benefits themselves and their families. Sadly, and in part because our society rarely rewards beneficial work the way it does exploitation, these people find the path of least resistance to be this kind of journey.

Or perhaps he never did give a fuck?

This seems a lot more plausible to me

We take comfort in fantasizing about a black and white world and condemn others without trying to understand what drove them to act this way. If, perhaps, we could understand the underlying causes we could remove them and prevent as much evil from arising in the future. But we first have to admit that cause and effect is real and applies to human behavior.

Dude just stop.

Cause? We don't care. Effect? We all are sicker and closer to the grave because these ghouls are preying on us. We don't care about the justifications for murdering the collective for personal gain, its just treason to humanity plain and simple.

I 100% agree that this is terrible, they're doing it for personal gain, and its treason against humanity. All I'm saying is there are underlying causes that drive people to do these things. If we can understand them maybe we can change those causes so it doesn't happen again in the future. I think any sensible person would agree that a future with less of these kinds of experiences is better for everyone.

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